Academic literature on the topic 'Angélica Liddell'

Este artículo aborda el libro Trilogía del infinito, de la creadora española Angélica Liddell, para indagar de qué forma sus textos poéticos ejercen una escritura performativa que entreteje temas filosóficos y estéticos como son la verdad, la belleza, el horror y lo trágico. Se analiza de qué forma la propuesta escritural de Liddell se aparta de los cánones dramáticos y se presenta como texto autónomo de la puesta en escena.Angélica Liddell: The Written Word’s Autonomyand Contemporary Tragic ThoughtAbstractSpanish author and theatre director, Angélica Liddell’s latest publication is Trilogía del infinito (Trilogy of the Infinite, 2016), a performative text in which she addresses philosophical and aesthetic issues such as truth, beauty, horror and tragic thought. This article discusses how Liddell’s book breaks with dramatic canons and exists as an autonomous text which may be later staged in a performative mode.Recibido: 05 de agosto de 2020Aceptado: 26 de enero de 2021

En este estudio analizaremos dos núcleos semióticos con los que Angélica Liddell va a basar la estructura interna de su obra, Belgrado: la herida y la cicatriz. Con estos dos motivos epidérmicos comprobaremos que la escritura liddelliana está atravesada por una cartografía herida, donde los personajes que intervienen en la obra serán traspasados por el horror y la masacre que han implicado las Guerras Yugoslavas.In this study, we will analyse two semiotic nucleus upon which Angélica Liddell has based the internal structure of her word. Belgrado: wound and scar. With these two epidermic motives we confirm that liddellian's writing is pierced by a wounded architecture, where the caracters that take part in the work will be affected by the horror and massacre caused by Yugoslav Wars.

El presente trabajo analiza la última producción escénica de la dramaturga, intérprete y directora española Angélica Liddell. La letra escarlata es un trabajo que confirma a su autora como una de las creadoras imprescincibles en el panorama teatral español y europeo contemporáneos.

Angélica Liddell (Figueras, 1960) constituye una de las voces más destacables del ámbito teatral contemporáneo. Su producción teatral se centra en el dolor y es, fundamentalmente, fruto de una búsqueda personal de la verdad humana y sus aspectos más oscuros y velados. El “Teatro de la Pasión” está estrechamente ligado a la importancia de la presencia en escena del actor en calidad de “cuerpo del texto”. Se trata de un discurso metarreflexivo, aparentemente propio y espontáneo, que se caracteriza por la subversión, la fuerza expresiva, la interpelación directa al espectador y por ofrecer un amplio horizonte de significado.

En este artículo se analiza el significado de los títulos de las obras de teatro más representativas de la dramaturga española, directora y actriz Angélica Liddell. Basándonos en una metodología de estudio de caso se analizan algunos de los títulos comprendidos desde el año 1991 hasta el 2018 desde una perspectiva hermenéutica. Cada uno de los títulos es tomado como pequeñas unidades de información, siendo analizados y clasificados en cinco apartados principales (relaciones interpersonales,contexto sociopolítico, rebeldía, muerte y familia). Estas temáticas configuran el universo de la escritora y adquieren unlenguaje propio y dimensionado al margen del texto dramático que encabezan. This article analyses the meaning of the titles of the most representative plays of the spanish playwright, director and actress Angélica Liddell. With a case study methodology, some of the titles from 1991 to 2018 are analyzed from a hermeneutic perspective. Each of the titles is taken as small units of information, and have been analyzed and classified in five main sections(interpersonal relations, socio-political context, rebellion, death and the family). These themes configure the writer's universe and acquire its own language and a new dimension apart from the dramatic text they lead.

Tackling violence against women in the theatre is often a controversial matter. To identify the ethical risks that victim representation may entail, we conduct a comparative analysis of two works about Ciudad Juárez’s feminicides staged in Barcelona: 2666 (2007), an adaptation of Roberto Bolaño’s novel directed by Àlex Rigola, and House of Strength (2011) by Angélica Liddell. This article argues that while Rigola reduces victims to mere sexual objects with no narrative of their own, Liddell places the voice and resilience of Mexicans in the foreground and represents their bodies respectfully. Adriana Nicolau is completing her doctoral studies on ‘Feminisms in contemporary Catalan theatre’ at Universitat Oberta de Catalunya (UOC) in Barcelona. Her publications include articles for Feminismo/s. Teresa Iribarren is an assistant professor at UOC, where she is the Director of the Catalan Literature, Publishing, and Society research group. Her current research focuses on narratives of violence and the promotion of human rights in literature.

Ao considerar a escrita teatral como ponto nevrálgico do teatro contemporâneo, esse artigo propõe trabalhar com a ideia de uma ligação contínua presente entre a escrita confessional e a encenação na obra “Yo no soy bonita” de Angélica Liddell. Acredita-se que o espetáculo e a língua da autora, encenadora e atriz/performer tornam-se diluídas no próprio acontecimento teatral, em que a ideia de um “devir-cênico” estabelece-se como um dispositivo cênico das novas teatralidades. Analisa-se como a noção de “eu” da artista se mescla ao desfalecimento da ideia de um personagem, criando uma zona de fronteiriça entre o teatro e a performance art, a qual se evidencia pela busca de uma possível experiência-limite da artista. ABSTRACT When considering the theatrical writing as nerve center of contemporary theater, this article proposes working with the idea of a continuous link between the present confessional writing and staging the Angélica Liddell work "Yo no soy bonita". It is believed that the show and the language of the author, stage director and actress / performer become diluted in their own theatrical event, in which the idea of "becoming-scenic" is established as a scenic device of new theatrics. It is analyzed how the notion of "I" of the artist melds the faintness of the idea of a character, creating a border zone between theater and performance art, which is evidenced by the search for a possible artist of limit-experience. KEYWORDS Becoming- scenic; confessional writing; limit-experience; contemporary theater.

Angélica Liddell’s surge to (relative) fame in recent years (a process which began in 2000, peaking around 2008/09) resulted in an increasing number of articles being published about her theatre, not to mention a significant number of interviews she gave for the Spanish and international press. There is also a doctoral thesis by Ana Vidal Egea concerning Atra Bilis’ (the name of Liddell’s group) work. However, no existing study engaged in detailed analysis of the artist’s theatrical production with the special focus on what is the most important and recurring topic in her work, that is sexuality and its immediate connection with violence. In order to explore this link from various angles, but at the same time with due precision, I have chosen seven plays from Liddell’s much richer literary output. The plays enclosed in the series Triptych of Affliction (Tríptico de la Aflicción), that is The Palavrakis Marriage (El matrimonio Palavrakis), Once upon a Time in West Asphixia and Hysterica Passio, explore the perversities and abuses that take place within families, with incest and sexual murder as leitmotifs. These plays were clearly inspired by psychoanalysis, which is why I dedicate extensive passages to demonstrating links between the two. Later I pass on to the study of war-related sexual abuse as exemplified in As She did not Rot…Snowhite (Y como no se pudrió… Blancanieves) and Belgrade. Let the Tongue Sing the Mystery of The Glorious Body (Belgrado. Canta lengua el misterio del cuerpo glorioso), in order to finish the dissertation with a chapter on the openly autobiographical I’m not Pretty (Yo no soy bonita) and The House of Force (La casa de la fuerza). Given that all Liddell’s plays include, whether narrated directly or transformed into fiction, elements of her personal life, in the opening chapter I have offered the reader a more systematized outline of the artist’s biography. Also, I dedicate some paragraphs to the premises that lead her in her work and to the post-dramatic features with which Liddell’s shows are replete. In addition to falling into the category of post-dramatism, Liddell’s shows may be classified as 'in-yer-face' theatre, as well as art therapy. I have proposed the latter label because Liddell apparently finds relief in reprocessing her personal experiences on stage, but also offers a kind of collective therapy – she insists on recognizing and revealing the, very often silent and for that reason easily dismissed, suffering of victims of sexual violence and psychological abuse. Liddell talks about very important questions of male-female-child power imbalance and the ensuing abuse, but she does not offer any realistic solutions to the problem. However, this lack of hope for change is consistent with the particular brand of biological determinism the artist professes, which, I dare say, is more fundamentalist than that favoured by many scientists. She perceives human beings as animals whose behaviour does not vary much from those of our cousins, the chimpanzees, thereby rendering culture merely a comfortable cloak under which to hide our basest impulses, desires and actions. Just as in modern evolutionary science, in Liddell’s art everything is driven by the urge to have sexual contacts (and, in some cases, necessarily reproduce), as according to Liddell our civilisation did not significantly alter this animalistic core of human nature (which remains animalistic just as does the nature of every animal species).

En el contexto del teatro posdramático, la historia se ha revelado un hito fundamental que abre un diálogo subjetivo para la re-construcción de una memoria personal y colectiva con especial énfasis en la recuperación de acontecimientos concretos y de voces oprimidas y, por tanto, silenciadas por la Historia oficial. En este marco se inscribe la presente tesis doctoral que explora la dramaturgia de tres autoras contemporáneas, todas ellas nacidas en la década de 1960, desde esta recuperación memorística y, por consiguiente, este cuestionamiento identitario, muy presentes en sus piezas. En efecto, en los tres actos que analizan pormenorizadamente las obras de Laila Ripoll, Angélica Liddell e Itziar Pascual se pone de manifiesto esta necesaria búsqueda que ha permitido crear una visión panorámica, basada en un recorrido temático que abarca los textos publicados a partir de la década de 1990 hasta el año 2010. Si bien cada una parte de presupuestos distintos, las tres dramaturgas se reencuentran incesantemente en la floración de personajes femeninos que problematizan el legado patriarcal y, por ende, su lugar en la sociedad, pero las autoras también denuncian el quietismo social anclado en una repetición constante de los patrones preestablecidos. Se abre, así, una profunda reflexión sobre el pasado, el presente, pero también el futuro en una clara necesidad de re-construir parte de nuestra propia identidad.
In the context of postdramatic theatre, the history has been revealed a fundamental landmark that opens a subjective dialogue for the re-construction of personal and collective memory with special emphasis on the recovery of specific events and oppressed, and thus, silenced voices and by official History. In this framework, this doctoral thesis explores the play-writing of three contemporary authors, all born in the 1960s, from this memory recovery and, therefore, the identity question, very present in their pieces. Indeed, the three acts, that analyze in detail the plays by Laila Ripoll, Angélica Liddell and Itziar Pascual, reveal this necessary search that allow me to create a panoramic view, based on a thematic itinerary covering texts published from the nineties until 2010. Assuming that each one of them part from different vision, the three playwrights converge incessantly in the emergence of female characters who problematize the patriarchal legacy and, therefore, their place in society, the authors also report the social quietism anchored in a constant repetition of pre-establish patterns. In this wait, they open a deep reflection on the past, on the present but also on the future in a clear need to re-build part of our identity.

L' objectiu principal de la tesi és, d'una banda, donar visibilitat a tres creadores escèniques que pertanyen a una mateixa generació, totes elles nascudes en els Països Catalans: Marta Carrasco (Barcelona, 1963), Sol Picó (Alcoi, 1967) i Angélica Liddell (Figueres, 1966) que fa vint anys que treballen en els límits del teatre, la dansa i la performance amb una notable projecció nacional i internacional. I d'altra banda, proporcionar un anàlisi crític i comparatiu dels processos de creació i espectacles amb perspectiva de gènere per extreure trets identificatius sobre la dona representada a l' escena contemporània. En primer lloc partim del context post olímpic de Barcelona 1992 i amb la manca de referents de creació femenina del nostre entorn en comparació a la visió internacional del teatre postdramàtic. Seguidament ens centrem en l' estudi dels espectacles de dansa i teatre de les tres intèrprets-directores-dramaturgues al llarg de la seva trajectòria artística. També ens nodrim de la visió multidisciplinar amb altres artistes com són Esther Ferrer, Fina Miralles, Olga Mesa, La Ribot, Olga Diego, Sarah Kane, Cindy Sherman i Marina Abramovic, Des de la perspectiva d'un estudi de gènere s'han trobat complicitats, similituds i divergències de les tres creadores que determinen quines tipologies de personatges resulten en els muntatges escènics i com es realitzen gràcies al que anomenem taló-punta-sang. Així, observem que la metàfora de taló-punta-sang esdevé una l'estitització del dolor a escena perquè totes tres parteixen d'una cultura fal·locèntrica comuna que superen amb eines creatives plurals (allò grotesc, l' estereotip, la deformitat, la monstruositat, la violència, la versemblança, la intimitat, l' autolesió física). L'anàlisi de la simbologia i iconografia de les creadores al llarg de la seva evolució professional ens demostra una mateixa convulsió escènica quan es trenquen els cànons patriarcals heretats. Establim la feminitat entesa com una màscara que es construeix per mitjà de la mirada i es mostra en l'autoretrat escènic, discursiu i fotogràfic. La recerca de la bellesa artística mostra feminitats diverses que aglutinen una realitat en procés de transformació constant. Finalment una mirada de contrast amb els discurs feminista, amb una visió multidisciplinar de les arts, amb analogies amb altres creadores catalanes i internacionals ens fa asseverar que - tot i compartir-hi trets distintius- Carrasco, Picó i Liddell creen una identificació no feminista.
The aim of this thesis is twofold. First, to provide visibility to three artistic directors born in the Catalan Countries; Marta Carrasco (Barcelona, 1963), Sol Picó (Alcoi, 1967) and Angélica Liddell (Figueres, 1966) whose contribution to the theatre, dance and performance arts for the last twenty years has been substantial, and has been recognized both on the national and international level. Second, to carry out a critical and comparative analysis between their creation process and performances with the gender approach in order to find specific traits related to the women portrayed on the contemporary stage. On the one hand, the first chapter presents Barcelona in the post-1992 Olympics context, with its absence of female creator figures, which contrasts strongly with the situation found in the international post-dramatic theatre at that time. On the other hand, the objective of this research is to study the theatre and dance performances of the three aforementioned female performers-directors-playwrights throughout their artistic career. The analysis in enriched with multidisciplinary references to other artists, such as Esther Ferrer, Fina Miralles, Olga Mesa, La Ribot, Olga Diego, Sarah Kane, Cindy Sherman and Marina Abramovic. The gender viewpoint adopted in this study allows us to discover complicities, similarities and divergences between Carrasco's, Picó's and Liddell's work. An important conclusion at which one arrives is that the type of characters and staging observed in those artists’ performances may be described by the metaphor “heel-en pointe-blood”. This expression refers to a way of processing pain on stage. The three artists we are concerned with come from a phallocentric culture they try to overcome by the means of different creative tools (grotesque, stereotype, deformity, monstrosity, violence, authenticity, privacy, self-harm). A thorough study of symbolism and iconography found in Carrasco's, Picó's and Liddell's work lets us notice moments of onstage convulsion when they abolish inherited patriarchal dogmas. This research regards femininity as a mask constructed through sight, manifesting itself in the onstage self-portrait, both discursive and visual. A continuous search for artistic beauty reveals diverse femininities that bring together the ever-changing reality. The closing chapters comprise the results of a contrastive analysis between those artists’ multidisciplinary work and the feminist discourse, along with comparisons to other female national and international artists. The conclusion is that, in spite of sharing certain attitudes and opinions with feminists, Carrasco, Picó and Liddell create a non-feminist identity.

Issus du théâtre alternatif espagnol des années 1990, Rodrigo Garcia et Angélica Liddell s'imposent aujourd'hui comme deux figures contestataires, réclamées par les scènes et les festivals européens, avec un théâtre "coup de poing" en prise avec le monde. Héritiers du théâtre postdramatique, fait de déconstructions et de réécritures, ils font désormais partie d'une génération d'artistes, défendant une écriture de plateau iconoclaste. La dimension apparemment scandaleuse de leurs spectacles et les différentes formes de censure auxquelles ils doivent faire face, nous inclinent à penser que nous assistons à une réactivation d'un théâtre politique, au sens militant du terme. L'inscription de ces deux artistes transgressifs dans une société dite postmoderne, et nos travaux d'analyses de textes et de spectacles, portant sur une décennie de créations, aideront à redéfinir la véritable nature de leur engagement
Coming from the Spanish alternative stage of the 1990's, Rodrigo Garcia and Angélica Liddell are now two of the greatest protesting figures, most wanted on European stages and festivals with their "punchy" theatre, in touch with the actual world. Heir of the post-dramatic theatre, made of deconstructions and rewritings, they are now part of generation of artists defending an iconoclastic stage composition. The apparently scandalous dimension of their shows and the different forms of censorship that they have to face, invite us to believe that we are watching the reactivation of a political theatre, in the activist sense of the word. These two transgressive artists embedded within a post-modern society, and our texts and performances analysis about a decade of creations, will help us to define the true nature of their involvement

Este trabalho propõe uma reflexão sobre o teatro contemporâneo em embate com as transformações sociais pelas quais estamos passando. Neste momento de incertezas e inversão de valores, o teatro incorpora as discussões e temáticas ligadas à experiência sensível dos seres humanos, ao mesmo tempo em que inova sua linguagem, recorrendo a dispositivos tecnológicos que propiciam diferentes modos de interação com o público. Propostas sem atores em cena aportam o questionamento sobre que elementos, afinal, definem o teatro, enquanto que o compartilhamento de experiências busca expandir o entendimento da inserção do real em cena. A partir da aproximação a aspectos que observamos recorrentes na cena atual, abordamos dois espetáculos em cada uma das três partes que constituem a pesquisa. Recorremos ao conceito da teatralidade como ferramenta imbatível para a exposição de uma prática teórica construída no momento mesmo dos acontecimentos que se pretende analisar. Pretendemos, desse modo, responder às exigências da área de Teoria e Prática do teatro, que privilegia pesquisas que fundem o fazer e o refletir teatral.
The thesis proposes a reflection on contemporary theatre\'s confrontation with current social transformations. In this moment of uncertainty and inversion of values, theatre incorporates discussions on sensitive themes while innovating its language, using technological devices that provide different modes of interaction with the public. The absence of actors on stage raises questions about what ultimately defines the theatre, while the sharing of personal experiences by actors, expands the understanding of the insertion of the real into the scene. We seek to approach reoccurring aspects of the current scene, analyzing two shows in each of the three parts of this research. We turn to the concept of theatricality as a unique tool to explore a very contemporary practice. In this way, it seeks to respond to the demands of theatre Practice and Theory field, which favors researches that combine practice and reflection.

Cette thèse a pour objet les dispositifs corporels sur la scène contemporaine traitant de l’irreprésentable. En effet, parmi les artistes contemporains, nombreux sont ceux qui reconnaissent que la représentation théâtrale ne peut saisir le réel de son objet, parce que ce réel est comme un traumatisme qui ne peut être réduit à la langue, ni traduit par elle. Cette notion esthétique de l’irreprésentable, qui recouvre un large champ d’expériences et de pratiques artistiques, sera donc étudiée ici à partir d’événements traumatiques. L’hypothèse essentielle est que l’irreprésentable en tant que traumatisme se rapporte intimement au corps. Renonçant à l’ambition de représenter l’irreprésentable, certains artistes créent et disposent divers dispositifs représentatifs qui s’avèrent corporels. Ils souhaitent que ceux-ci puissent toucher le corps des spectateurs et enclenchent une irruption du réel, pour que chaque spectateur puisse rencontrer son propre réel irreprésentable. La thèse vise d’abord à éclaircir les concepts cruciaux – l’irreprésentable, le dispositif (contrôle foucaldien et pulsion lyotardienne), le théâtre contemporain, le dispositif représentatif et artistique – puis à analyser le travail de trois metteurs en scène – Kim Hyuntak, Romeo Castellucci, Angélica Liddell – en interrogeant, pour chacun, le thème de l’irreprésentable, les dispositifs corporels qu’il conçoit, et sa manière d’interpeller des spectateurs
This dissertation examines the bodily “dispositifs” in the contemporary theatre performances that explore the concept of the “unrepresentable”. Many contemporary artists acknowledge that theatrical representation cannot grasp the Real of its object, because the Real is, as Lacan has argued, equivalent to the trauma that cannot be reduced to, or translated into, language. Therefore, this study considers the aesthetic notion of the unrepresentable, which encompasses a wide range of artistic experiences and practices, from the position of trauma. The central assumption is that the unrepresentable as trauma is intimately related to the body. Renouncing the ambition to represent the unrepresentable, some artists create and place various representative dispositifs that are corporeal in nature. Through the use of such dispositifs, they attempt to touch the bodies of the spectators and trigger an irruption of the Real, so that each spectator can meet one's own Real. This thesis begins by clarifying the crucial concepts—the unrepresentable, the dispositif (Foucault’s control and Lyotard’s drive), the contemporary theater, the representative and artistic dispositif—and proceeds to analyze the works of three directors—Kim Hyuntak, Romeo Castellucci, Angelica Liddell—by investigating the theme of the unrepresentable, the bodily dispositifs that they have conceived, and their ways of affecting spectators